![]() ![]() He was elected to the Missouri State House of Representatives, serving from 1836 to 1838 and again from 1840 to 1844. Following the Mormon capitulation in November 1838, Price was ordered by Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs to Caldwell County with a company of men to protect the Saints from further depredations following their surrender. ![]() His report was favorable to the Mormons, stating that they were not guilty, in his opinion, of the charges levied against them by their enemies. On May 14, 1833, he married Martha Head from Randolph County, Missouri, and the couple would eventually have seven children, five of whom survived to adulthood.ĭuring the Mormon War of 1838, Price served as a member of a delegation sent from Chariton County, Missouri, to investigate reported disturbances between Latter Day Saints and anti-Mormon mobs operating in the western part of the state. He moved to Keytesville, Missouri, where he ran a hotel and mercantile a year later. In the fall of 1831, Price and his family moved to Fayette, Missouri. He was then admitted to the Virginia bar and established a law practice. ![]() He grew up to attend Hampden-Sydney College in 18, where he studied law and worked at the courthouse near his home. Price was born near Farmville, Virginia September 20, 1809. Sterling “Old Pap” Price was a lawyer, planter, politician, Missouri Governor, and Confederate General in the Civil War. ![]()
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